On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:19:31 UTC, Konstantin wrote:
I don’t believe a community is capable of creating a good GC. It’s just too complex engineering task. It’s been a known problem for years, still no solution.
GCs are a solved problem and the most common and fastest techniques have been known for more than 20 years. The GC implementation that D is using now came from the 70's, for example.
One guy wrote the LuaJIT GC, which beat almost everyone else in performance when I last checked, so I think this is a massive exaggeration.
Has anyone thought about taking GC from .NET and reusing it in D?
Two words: write barriers.
